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Media Professionals of Florida, Inc. provides informative meetings on the second Tuesday of each month For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@mediaprofessionals.org


February

2009

"A VALENTINE SWEET SUITE"

Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premiums

This month's meeting was held at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa and A special thanks to Paul Pelak, Department Chair of Digital Photography, of International Academy of Design and Technology, for hosting an exciting meeting.
The food and networking is always great but this time Adobe® sponsored the food and allowed us to provide some great eats for over one hundred guests and MPFI members.
Just when we thought it couldn't get any better there were Valentine bags with candy and special gifts for everyone.
Rod Harlan, President of DriveDV, Inc. presented a great program that highlited Adobe®’s all-new, tightly integrated, cross-platform toolset for video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media.
Rod showed our group of over one hundred and ten some of the new features of the various programs in the Adobe® Creative Suite 4.
Here Rod is showing the group how to add animated masked with keyframe in Adobe® Photoshop.
Another example of Adobe®'s power is the ability to import a sequence for still images into Photoshop and then automatically turn these stills into a full motion video sequence.
Rod showed examples of the many updates in Premiere Pro including the ability to import almost every video format in its native mode.
Everything was looking a little 3D as Rod wore his 3D glasses to show us some examples in this format.
Rod is giving Marilyn Westropp a hearty handshake as she was the winner of the Adobe® Creative Suite 4.Production Premium package valued at over $1,700. This fabulous prize was provided by Adobe® and from everyone from Media Professionals of Florida we say "THANK YOU!"
Also if you liked the food at this meeting it was provided by Longhorn Meat Market and Deli in Clearwater and they gave us an MPFI discount.

Speakers

Rod Harlan is the President of DriveDV, Inc., a full service multimedia firm, live event producer, and episodic web television development studio. He is the Founder and Director of Education for the Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA), Dynamic Media Editor of Layers Magazine, Audio-Visual Director for the Adobe Photoshop World Conferences and an Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He is an author and contributor of numerous books, countless magazine articles, and is a frequent speaker and trainer at many of the largest conferences and expos. His personal blog, DVconfidential.com, is an industry favorite because of its mix of discussion on the business of DV, tips & techniques, rumors and reviews all told through Rod's unique perspective.

For more information contact Rod at rod@dvpa.com